Beef Stew

How would you like to put dinner on your table in 30-minutes flat? You can with these menus!

Are you making plans for a Spooky Halloween or a Fall Festival? I am - this is going to be a very busy week getting ready for a Halloween Party for my Sunday school class so I have included quick and simple 30-minute menus this week. You can use your precious time getting for fun Fall events using these menus!

We are having company Saturday night so I have planned an elegant meal. I will add appetizers of prochuttio wrapped bread sticks, a wedge of cheese (brie or similar) with assorted crackers, and salsa with veggies for a tasty beginning to our meal. The bread sticks, salsa, and bagged pre-cut veggies will be purchased making it very easy on the hostess! I will even have time for a glass of wine before the company arrives and will be relaxed and ready (now this is my kind of entertaining!).

I hope you have a great week!

Sunday: Eye of the Round Roast Beef with Peppercorn Sauce (crock pot, save some beef for Wednesday), Mashed Potatoes, Chop House Salad, Individual Boston Cream Tortes (pound cake with instant pudding mix)

Monday: Bistro Chicken (chicken tenders, canned tomatoes), Linguini, Green Beans, Caramelized Peaches and Cream (purchased whipped cream)

Tuesday: Thai Shrimp (packaged mix, cleaned and deveined shrimp), Angel Hair Pasta, Cuke and Honeydew Salad, Strawberry Shortcakes (purchased sponge cake shells and whipped cream)

Wednesday: Blue Cheese Crusted Beef Stew (beef from Sunday, blue cheese folded into purchased pie crust for topper), Fruit Salad, Apple Dumplings (purchased pie crust wrapped around cored and filled apples)

Thursday: Turkey Tetrazzini (precooked turkey or chicken - I will use canned chicken), Broccoli Vegetable Medley, Ice Cream with Pecan Shortbread Cookies (purchased ice cream and cookies)

Friday: Fresh Tomato and Double Cheese Tart (puff pastry), French Green Beans, Pineapple Salad, Embellished Chocolate Cookies (purchased cookie dough)

Saturday: Grilled Salmon with Dill Butter, Long Grain and Wild Rice (boxed), Snow Peas, Tossed Salad (bagged salad), Lemon Affogato (purchased lemoncello liqueur)

I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation,

Elizabeth Randall and Family

MomsMealConnection is designed to help busy moms everywhere prepare meals - family meals, holiday celebrations, and special dinners plus entertaining - through recipe and meal planning links. Most of the links are fast, fun, and free to use. Who has time to waste searching endlessly through the web? Certainly not us moms!

I have started a new feature on my web page, http://www.MomsMealConnection.com - I am creating Complete Menu Plans using my 30-minute menus: The Complete Menu Plans give you recipes and step-by-step instructions for preparing the complete meal (not just the entree as most meal plans do) in 30 minutes - flat!

I even include a grocery list to save unnecessary trips to the grocery store.

These are eComplete Menu Plans so you can order the menu plan now and use it for dinner tonight!

You won't have to spend your precious time thinking of menu ideas and then looking up the recipes - I will send it all directly to you!

If you have found my 30-minute menus helpful, then you must check out the 30-Minute Complete Menu Plans!

I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation, Elizabeth Randall and Family

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This is the 47th edition of the weekly 30-minute menus for 2010. These are published on a weekly basis; I like to develop the weekly menus on Thursday or Friday, grocery shop on Saturday, and start the week's menus on Sunday.

Happy December everyone. The menus this week will put the Ho! Ho! Ho! in your Holidays! These menus will have you out of the kitchen and doing the special things you want to do during this holiday season. Have a great, blessed holiday.

Beef Stew

You will find that I use several cooking methods, mix and match, to get dinner on the table quickly! (The ingredients in parenthesis show some of my quick-prep steps.) You can always substitute your favorite made-from-scratch recipes when you have more time.

I hope you have a great week!

Sunday:
Fish in White Wine Sauce (frozen fish fillets)
Duchess Potatoes (instant garlic mashed potatoes)
Baby Peas (frozen peas)
Baked Tomato Halves
Coconut Cream Pie with Berries (prepared graham cracker crust, instant pudding mix)

Monday:
Kielbasa and Bean Cassoulet (fully cooked sausage)
Apple Feta Salad (purchase extra apples for Thursday)
Chocolate Puddings (instant chocolate pudding mix)

Tuesday:
Mexi-Chicken Wraps (pre-cooked or deli chicken, bagged shredded lettuce and cheese)
Black Bean and Corn Salad (canned black beans and corn)
Corn Chips and Salsa (bagged corn chips, jarred tomato salsa; purchase extra salsa for Saturday)
Embellished Sugar Cookies (purchased sugar cookie dough)

Wednesday:
Cream of Broccoli Soup (vegetarian; shredded cheese, boxed vegetable broth)
Quick Artichoke Crostini (jarred marinated artichokes)
Caramelized Peaches

Thursday:
Blue Cheese Encrusted Beef Stew (pre-cooked or deli beef; prepared pie crust, jarred beef gravy, canned potatoes and carrots)
Fresh Fruit Salad (prepared mayo)
Apple Dumplings a la Mode (purchased ice cream, prepared pie crust)

Friday:
Weeknight Baked Ziti (vegetarian; jarred pasta sauce, bagged shredded cheese)
Sauteed Spinach (bagged baby spinach)
Personal Cherry Pies (purchased pastry shells, canned cherry pie filling)

Saturday:
Corn Bread and Chili Strata (purchased corn bread, canned chili, jarred salsa)
Citrus Salad (bagged greens, jarred citrus)
Double Delight Chocolate Cupcakes (purchased cupcakes)

I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation,
Elizabeth Randall and Family

What's For Dinner? 30-Minute Menus for 2010 - 47th Edition

http://MomsMealConnection.com is designed to help busy moms everywhere prepare meals - family meals, holiday celebrations, and special dinners plus entertaining - through recipe and meal planning links. Most of the links are fast, fun, and free to use. Who has time to waste searching endlessly through the web? Certainly not us moms!

I am the mother of five grown children who are now starting families of their own so to say that I have 'been there, done that' is an understatement! My trick is to plan weekly menus and grocery shop only once per week. I am a firm believer that once-a-week meal planning and grocery shopping saves a lot of time and money! We can all use more of those commodities.

I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation, Elizabeth Randall and Family

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